”
“I suppose,” Anna said, “that those are reasonable deductions. But, what is it! What did you promise?"
"To offer you my heart, my hand, my life," replied Kneebone, falling at her feet. “We don’t pretend. “Perhaps one talks nonsense about a woman’s instinct,” she said. “Come, we must go home and have some
luncheon. In a very definite sense we are in the wrong
—hopelessly in the wrong. Anna lied to you, I lied to you. Paris was full, and it
was by no means a retired spot which she had found. —Your father, Sir Montacute Trenchard, who
had been a loyal subject of King James the Second, and borne arms in his
service, on the abdication of that monarch, turned his back upon the Stuarts, and
would never afterwards recognise their claims to the crown. I dare not reflect upon the effect that her son's fate,—if the efforts
to save him are ineffectual,—may have upon her enfeebled frame, and still
worse upon her mind. "Because they're in the next room, and the door's shut; that's vy, my jack-adandy!" replied Abraham, unsuspiciously. The boy had all kinds of opportunity; but it's the old story of father making
it too easy. "
"No," answered the ruffian, moodily. S.
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